Five teenaged students of a private boarding school drowned while they were taking bath in Jivach river here, police said.
The students were taking bath in Jivach river when they accidentally slipped in deep water and drowned, Town police station in-charge Kumar Kriti said.
The bodies of Gaurav Singh (14), Shobha Jha (15), Bablu Jha (15), Abhishek Kumar Jha (14), and Ankit Kumar (14) have been fished out and sent for post-mortem.
The victims were students of Indian Public School and residing in its hostel.
